John Galsworthy ,,Forsyte'ide saaga I" Tegelased: vana Jolyon; noor Jolyon; Philip Bosinney; Ann Forsyte; June Forsyte; Irene; Soames Forsyte; tädi Juley; tädi Hester; Swithin Forsyte; James Forsyte; George; Nicholas; Timothy; Holly ja Jolly; koer Balthasar Sellisena oled sa sündinud ja selliseks sa jääd oma surmani! Lihvitud klaasist kroonlühter põlevate küünaldega rippus nagu hiiglaslik stalaktiit laua kohal, pildudes kiiri suurtele kuldraamidega peeglitele, kõrvallaudade
irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt- edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of old days, as they have come down to us in fairy-tale and legend, the folk of the old Sagas were Forsytes, assuredly, in their possessive instincts, and as little proof against the inroads of beauty and passion as Swithin, Soames, or even Young Jolyon. And if heroic figures, in days that never were, seem to startle out from their surroundings in fashion unbecoming to a Forsyte of the Victorian era, we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then the prime force, and that "family" and the sense of home and property counted as they do to this day, for all the recent efforts to "talk them out." So many people have written and claimed that their families were the originals of the Forsytes that
stances in the past. Yet virtually nowhere do we find evidence of an event even approximating the Jonestown incident among such groups. There must be some- thing else that was critical. One especially revealing question gives us a clue: "If the community had re- mained in San Francisco, would Reverend Jones' suicide command have been obeyed?" A highly speculative question to be sure, but the expert most familiar with the People's Temple had no doubt about the answer. Dr. Louis Jolyon West, then chairman of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA and director of its neu- ropsychiatric unit, was an authority on cults who had observed the People's Temple for eight years prior to the Jonestown deaths. When interviewed in the immediate aftermath, he made what strikes me as an inordinately instructive statement: "This wouldn't have happened in California. But they lived in total alienation from the rest of the world in a jungle situation in a hostile country."
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